Question

Sickle in the symbol of Communism symbolises:
A) Industrial Workers
B) Government Officials
C) Agricultural workers
D) All of these.

Answer 1

Hint: A sickle is an instrument with a curved blade and a handle, which is used to harvest crops by cutting through them. Communism is a movement that focuses primarily on the welfare of the working class and is against the accumulation of private property. It also opposes the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people.

Complete answer:
Industrial Workers - This is an incorrect option. Industrial Workers on the Communism symbol are represented by the hammer. The industrial working class has been an important aspect of the Communist movement and ideology. At the advent of the Industrial Revolution, workers in factories often worked under inhumane conditions. They got very fewer wages and naturally had poor living conditions. As a result, the working class joined the Communist Movement to liberate the workers from such inhumane conditions.

Government Officials - This is an incorrect option. The typical symbol of communism does not contain any representation of Government Officials. However, the Workers Party of Korea (which is also a Communist Party) contains a symbol of a brush for the intelligentsia, which is equivalent to government officials. The typical communism symbol, comprising a sickle and a hammer on a red banner, was conceived in the Soviet Union in 1917 during the Russian Revolution.

Agricultural Workers - This is the correct option. The sickle represents the farmers or agricultural workers in the communist symbol, as the sickle is a tool of harvesting and reaping. Many farmers who cultivated crops did not own land and had to farm on the lands of landlords. As a result, these farmers were exploited and did not get a sufficient share in the produced crops despite their hard labour and were also burdened with heavy taxes. The agricultural workers thus became an important part of the Communist Movement to fight for their rights to land ownership.

Hence the correct answer is option 'C'.

Note: The Industrial Working Class and the Agricultural Working Class are collectively known as the Proletariat. The Communism symbol signifies the united struggle of the Proletariat against the property owners (Capitalists or Bourgeoisie).